Chronicle of Higher Education - Commentary

November 25, 2012

Right now, it is easy for most institutions to deny students who ask to transfer credit. They just say the quality is not up their standards. But what happens when students arrive at the registrars’ office with credit-bearing courses from professors at Stanford, Penn, and Princeton? What will the excuse be that the courses were free? Such an excuse might finally expose the true reason many colleges refuse to accept transfer credits: They want students to pay them tuition for a class, not another institution.